From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
damaged
adj 1: harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged
goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged
buildings" [ant: undamaged]
2: being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited
politician"; "her damaged reputation" [syn: discredited,
damaged]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damaged
(d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging
(d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See
Damage, n.]
To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of;
to hurt; to injure; to impair.
[1913 Webster]
He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a
broadside, with which he killed many of his men and
damaged the ship. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.
1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other
desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite
of undamaged. [Narrower terms: {battered, beat-up,
beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,
ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound}; {bent, crumpled,
dented}; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed;
{burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate),
burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate)}; {burst,
ruptured}; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed;
defaced, marred; hurt, weakened;
{knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out}; {mangled,
mutilated}; peeling; scraped, scratched;
storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged,
destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some
part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower
terms: busted; chipped; cracked; {crumbled,
fragmented}; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured;
shattered, smashed, splintered; split; {unkept,
violated}] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured,
unsound.
Syn: broken.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged
reputation.
Syn: discredited.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as,
the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied,
tainted, tarnished.
[WordNet 1.5]